...Ann Jefferson Ashbery John , Collected French Translations: Prose , ed. Wasserman Rosanne and Richie Eugene . ( New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2014 ), 432 pp. Ashbery John , Collected French Translations: Poetry , ed. Wasserman Rosanne and Richie...

...Joseph Frank Yves Bonnefoy, Shakespeare and the French Poet , ed. John Naughton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 304 pp. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Hauke Brunkhorst...

...—the Assuming the role of prosecutor,of role the a Assuming submitted 1991 in Janicaud The French Debate Dominique Janicaudetal...

...—the Assuming the role of prosecutor,of role the a Assuming submitted 1991 in Janicaud The French Debate Dominique Janicaudetal...

...David Bellos Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Philippe Gilles , French Style: L’accent français de la prose anglaise ( Brussels : Les Impressions nouvelles , 2016 ), 255 pp. ...

... 10.1215/0961754X-7900072 Miranda Griffin, Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 256 pp. It is hard to think of a more central and alluring topic for a literary scholar than the shape shifting of Ovid s extraordinary narrative...

...David Bellos [email protected] Richard Scholar , Émigrés: French Words That Turned English ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 ), 253 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Etymologies are often entertaining, but it is not always obvious...

...Charles R. Sullivan John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006), 265 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations...

... that the practice seemed almost transhistorical, something that was done always and everywhere. By the reign of Louis XIII, however, statesmen began stressing the limits of interdynastic marriage as a diplomatic strategy. This transformation of French affairs of state coincided with the appearance of prose romances...

...Charles Sullivan Armenteros Carolina , The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and His Heirs, 1794 – 1854 ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2011 ), 361 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions...

...Ardis Butterfield Vernacular language use in England throughout the later Middle Ages was a complex negotiation between English and French; that is, between the languages of English and French and the political identities of two peoples engaged in a long war. Clifford Geertz's famous analysis...

... theory to escape the otherwise inevitable influence of French avant-garde literary movements. These writers—Henry James in part 1, Donald Davie in part 2, and the “American Bakhtinian” critics in part 3—found in Russian examples a responsible yet radical and morally oriented alternative to what...

...Léon-Paul Fargue; Valery Larbaud After the early death of the little-known but extraordinarily promising French poet Henry J.-M. Levet, Valery Larbaud and Léon-Paul Fargue visited with Levet’s parents in the city of Montbrison. In a recorded conversation, they describe their visit...

... aestheticism of French literary culture. Part 2 treats the poetry and criticism of the English “Movement” poet Donald Davie in light of his turn, in 1958, toward the example of Boris Pasternak as a way of escaping the influence of French Symbolist poetics and the post-Symbolist poetics of anglophone modernism...

... of French literary culture. Part 3 treats the way in which certain American critics of the 1980s and 1990s, primarily the scholars of Russian literature Caryl Emerson and Gary Saul Morson, deployed their translations and studies of Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory to undercut the work of French...

...Maya Jasanoff; Jeffrey M. Perl Written in an effort “to frame questions of culture and power in different terms” from those of Edward Said, this case study of Ottoman Alexandria before the French invasion in 1798 (identified by Said as the “launchpad of modern Orientalism”) reveals “lines between...

...Lesley Chamberlain Although they have a religious origin, the terms quietist and quietism have generally been used in the anglophone world in the context created by the French Revolution, which made them expressions of political abuse. Examination of classic instances of their use shows...

... Métaphysiques cannibales of 2009, was laid in the 1970s by the controversial French anthropologists Pierre and Hélène Clastres. It is argued that the Clastres took the intellectual practices of Guarani shamans and prophets as analogous to the those of ancient Greek philosophers but also as sharply critical...

..., the funeral of Jean II, and the Treaty of Leulinghen. The article asks how English and French negotiators worked collectively through language to create, identify, and maintain borderlines in their public, political relationships. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...Lionel Gossman The topic of this guest column is Beaumarchais's endeavor, as a dramatist, to overcome the irreconcilable polarities of high and low, spirit and body, noble and base, tragedy and comedy that are essential to French classical theater by adapting traditional comedy to the less rigid...